The big question of the day is...Why?! Why did I put myself through the stress of trying to be a good doobie and go to church yesterday?!
At the last minute it was decided that I would take Emma and Elias to church and Jared would stay home with the twins since I hadn't been to church for 4 weeks. Let me break down my day for you. First we got there 30 minutes late. I decided if I was going to go I needed to look good since they hadn't seen me since I was pregnant so I did my hair, some make-up, blah blah blah and then since I was dripping with sweat while I was getting ready I had to dry off and get the older 2 ready so needless to say we were late.
I refuse to sit in the chairs in the back because that's where the noisy kids sit and they will be disruptive to Elias and make it harder for him to behave so I found a spot in the middle section of the soft benches that we could sit so we did. Had I known how the rest of sacrament would have gone, I would have chosen the hard chairs. Elias was all over the bench, trying to escape out of our side, crawling over the boys on the other end of the bench, whining for food, toys, sorta playing with the boys behind us, etc. Then it happened. He escaped. After he made it out of our row he was heading toward the front of the sacrament room but he turned and looked back at me and flashed me a big smile so I thought for sure he was going to head back once I motioned for him to, NOPE!!! He bolted up the few steps to the podium where the bishopric sits, the speakers, the whole kit and caboodle. I did not want to embarrass myself by taking claim to that ill behaved child so I sent Emma up there to go get him. He sees her running for him so he runs faster across the podium which in turn means Emma runs faster to get him, all this is happening right behind the speaker. The 2nd counselor helped stop Elias and Emma was able to get him down and start to carry him back towards our bench but then he decided to be a stink pot and drop out of her arms so she is sorta wrestling him at the front of the sacrament room trying to get him back to our bench. And where was I during all of this you might be wondering? I was slowly sinking down into my seat and covering up my bright red face and wondering how I was going to make it through the rest of church. I used to wonder about those parents who let their kids run wild in church well let me just say...they are pretty :)
Finally Sacrament was over (15 minutes late) and we headed out to our classes. Elias helped me get the nursery rooms ready and then I spilled bubbles all down the front of my skirt, my leg and my shoe. After carrying the boxes to the appropriate class rooms I realized I have big-time sweaty armpits, etc. Finally church is over and I went to go get Elias from his classroom only to discover that he had been mauled by a fellow classmate.
Ok so I would go into more details but now I decided I would tell you about my day so far today. Jared took Emma to the movies this morning, Elias went to a friend's house for a play date and my friend Kristi came over to take care of the babies while I cleaned my house and what not. I decide to start a load of laundry and continue cleaning while it was going. About 15-20 minutes into the cycle we hear this very load crash and everyone stops and looks around. I thought, "oh crap, my shelf has fallen down in my laundry room and my food storage is going to be all over." We wait another few seconds and hear some more noises and then I sucked it up and went to investigate. I braced myself for the food disaster that I was about to walk into but I couldn't get the laundry room door open all the way, something is blocking it...what it is it you might be wondering...it was my 1 year old washing machine completely turned around 180 degrees and the top of it blown off and dangling off the side with the sides all dented outward and water spilling out onto the floor. I called Jared's cell phone and gave it to Kristi and told her to tell Jared to come home right away and I ran across the street to get my neighbor thinking he could help me lift it back up. My neighbor and Kristi are smarter than I am and they shut the water off and looked around at my washing machine disaster. As an added bonus, the only thing thing that fell off the shelf above the washing machine was a brand new bottle of cleaner which costs me $75 - so that was really fun. Ok, another long story short, Kristi took my clothes home to wash them since a repair man wont be out until Wednesday and I am sure then he will tell us it will be a week before they can get us a new one anyways but I did manage to take a picture to share with you all :)
PS - THANK YOU Kristi for all you have done us today and before I get 500 comments about this, the load was only 1/2 full so it wasn't my fault!
We got her to the bus stop and all the kids loaded up but one did not because her grandma said she was to ride the "red" bus and this one was yellow (the school assigns each bus a color so it is easier for the kids to remember which one they ride and this year ours is "red" which means a big red circle hangs on the side) we had to explain to her that this was indeed the right bus and so she reluctantly put her child on the bus. 
If any of you remember last year's first day of school (see July 2007) it was pretty crazy so we wanted to make sure things were better this year and still secretly followed her to school. She was a little confused and wandering around so I guess it was a good thing I was there although I am sure she would have figured it out eventually. I got her to her class line to wait for the teachers to come and get them and me and all of the rest of the nerdy parents followed the class to their classroom. I wanted to get a cute picture of her sitting at her desk like last year but before I could get in the classroom the teacher said, "whose first day of school is this...yours or your parents?! Blow your parents a kiss and tell them that you will have a great first day and you will see them at 3pm" and then she shut the door on us...good for her. So this is the best picture I could get. 
I went to the school at lunch time again to volunteer and help out with the kindergartners on the first day with their lunches and help anyone else who might need it. I did very well and only got teary eyed one time when I saw a little girl with a note from her mom :) I was a super mom this year and actually remembered to put a note in Emma's lunch unlike last year, oops. 
This year after school instead of kids getting off on the wrong stop and police getting called they sent a teacher home on every bus with a list of all the kids and what stop is theirs so when the bus makes a stop the teacher calls the name and if your name is called you get off and if its not, your stuck on the bus...much better, love it and they got badges for their backpacks which are color coded with their bus color and their name on it with their student id so if they do get lost, you can call the school and they will have all of their info there, LOVE IT!!! Well, needless to say this first day was pretty uneventful but that is probably good although I do realize it makes for a boring story :) I did however manage to capture this dad walking behind me...notice the fanny pack around his waste..he carried a water bottle in it, a still camera and a video camera, he would rotate between each camera so he could capture each step the child made on the way to school...look close at the picture, he is still video taping him. 
This is going to be a great year for Emma she got the teacher we wanted and looks forward to going each day!
